I just sent this email to Nintendo via their web form:

Hello,

I just wanted to let you, as a company, know that I have 800 Wii Store points waiting for the release of Super Metroid on Virtual Console. I’m not asking for a release date — I know better than that — but I thought that you should know that there is money ready and set aside to be taken from me by Nintendo of America. You can even include it in your projected earnings if you want: $8 of nearly-pure profit. I wish I had that kind of financial security.

Sincerely,
Fred
Minneapolis, MN

That oughta do it. Seriously, though. They released Super Mario Bros 2 this morning. That’s cool and all — it’s a great game — but it’d be nice if they hit more of the classic games that haven’t yet been re-released on Game Boy Advance. ActRaiser was a great step a few weeks ago. But Zeldas 1, 2 and A Link to the Past, all the NES Super Mario games, and Super Mario World and Yoshi’s Island are all available in portable form. Super Metroid has never been repackaged, and was just named the #10 game of all time by Edge Magazine. Where’s the love?

Incidentally, the #2 game on that list, Resident Evil 4, has just been re-released on the Wii. Some reviewers (Gamespot among them) are calling it the best version of the game. That’s pretty sweet. And the game’s cheap. So get it if you haven’t played it. If you can find it — I can’t. But I am looking for a new Wii game after having finished Twilight Princess on Saturday. The final boss battle was epic, and did a fantastic part of drawing on skills learned throughout the entire game, including, oddly enough, your cattle-herding skills. Awesome.

That’s all I got.